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In‐hospital costs in patients with seizures and epilepsy after stroke
Summary ObjectivesTo verify the net effect of seizures after stroke on the use of in‐hospital health care resources. MethodsConsecutive patients with first‐ever stroke were admitted to the stroke unit of a Moscow hospital and followed prospectively until death or discharge. Each patient experiencing seizures was matched for age, sex, stroke type, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score at admission, and stroke risk factors to 2+ patients with no seizures, as controls. Resources consumed included length of hospital stay, admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), diagnostic tests, medical consultations and tre...
Source: Epilepsia - June 13, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Alla Guekht, Maria Mizinova, Andrey Ershov, Denis Guz, Igor Kaimovsky, Paolo Messina, Ettore Beghi Tags: Full‐Length Original Research Source Type: research